Mount of Olives
High confidence~2 km
- Modern identification
- Mount of Olives ridge · Jerusalem
- Coordinates
- 31.7780, 35.2440
The ridge is securely identified, but individual discourse and route positions are usually not exact.
What happened at Mount of Olives
- His triumphal entry into Jerusalem as the Messiah
Mark 11:1-11; Matthew 21:1-11, 14-17; Luke 19:29-44; John 12:12-19
The entry is a route event from Bethany through Bethphage and the Mount of Olives into Jerusalem. The ridge is securely identified, but individual discourse and route positions are usually not exact.
- Sitting on the mount of olives, Jesus speaks to his disciples about the destruction of Jerusalem, and his own second coming, in apocalyptic language. The great eschatological discourse
Mark 13:1-37; Matthew 24 and 25; Luke 21:5-36
The ridge is securely identified, but individual discourse and route positions are usually not exact.